Call for Special Issue: Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

Journal of World Business

Call for papers for a special issue

Submission deadline: May 4, 2015

Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America 

Guest Editors:

• Ruth Aguilera
• Luciano Ciravegna
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

“Name some Brazilian multinationals. Even harder than "famous Belgians", isn't it? Despite Brazil being the world's eighth-largest economy, with plenty of big, profitable firms, few of them have a reasonable share of their operations abroad and are thus genuinely multinational.” The Economist, Sept 21, 2000.

“For the first time Brazil has a crop of companies that can be described as multinationals. Some of them are already well known outside Brazil: Petrobras; Vale, one of the world’s largest mining companies; and Embraer, the world’s third-largest maker of passenger jets.” The Economist, November 12, 2009.

These two quotes from the British newspaper The Economist reflect the change in view about Multilatinas, or Latin American multinational companies. The reason is not that there were no Multilatinas before 2000. In fact, there have been Multilatinas for over a century. For example, the Argentinean shoemaker Alpargatas was created in 1885 and established subsidiaries in Uruguay in 1890 and in Brazil in 1907. The reason is that there were few studies analyzing Multilatinas before the 2000s. This was part of a general trend in the international business literature that appeared to have ignored the region. For example, a review of articles in two leading journals in the field of international business (Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review) in the period 1987-1997 indicated that fewer than 6% of the articles mentioned Latin America (Elahee and Vaidya, 2001). This paucity of studies on the region had not changed in recent times. A review of studies in four leading international business journal (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review) in 2001-2005 indicated that only 2.75% of articles studied firms in the region (Perez-Batres, Pisani and Doh, 2010). Nevertheless, a few analyses of multinationals have indicated that firms from this region are becoming multinational rapidly and some of them are becoming leaders in their industries (Casanova, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2008,; Fleury and Fleury, 2010; Santiso, 2013).

In this special issue we plan to take stock of what is known about these firms and identify potential avenues for future research. Other special issues of the Journal of World Business have analyzed various regions of the world such as India (Varma and Budhwar, 2012), China (Laforet, Paliwoda and Chen, 2012), Africa (Kamoche, 2011), the Middle East (Mellahi, Demirbag and Riddle, 2011), and Korea (Paik and Lee, 2008). This special issue contributes to the global scope of the Journal of World Business by studying firms from Latin America, which have, thus far, been underrepresented in the management and business literature (Brenes, Montoya and Ciravegna, 2014).  With this special issue, we aim to not only increase our understanding of Multilatinas, but also to identify the particular characteristics of their internationalization and how it compares with the internationalization of firms from other regions.

The rise of emerging market multinationals has been well documented (for example see the papers in the special issues edited by Aulakh, 2007; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Gammeltoft, Barnard and Madhok, 2010; Luo and Tung, 2007; and in the books edited by Cuervo-Cazurra and Ramamurti, 2014; Ramamurti and Singh, 2007, Sauvant, 2008; Williamson et al., 2013), yet the literature on emerging market multinationals has thus far focused mainly on firms from regions other than Latin America. With this Special Issue of Journal of World Business, we aim to fill this gap, contributing to the international business literature and the body of knowledge documenting the practices of multinational companies.

This call is an attempt to integrate different aspects that might have influenced the growth and internationalization of Latin American firms. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and case studies submission addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• ·         Successful Multilatinas expanding outside their region
• ·         Comparative ownership advantages/disadvantages of Multilatinas
• ·         Internationalization patterns of Latin American firms
• ·         The internationalization of state-owned Latin American firms
• ·         Institutional constraints for Latin American companies to internationalize
• ·         Foreign performance of Latin American firms
• ·         Effects of exports promotion agencies on the internationalization of Latin American firms
• ·         Governance in Multilatinas
• ·         The internationalization of Latin American business groups  
• ·         Global leadership in Multilatinas
• ·         Dimensions of management diversity in Multilatinas
• ·         Determinants of outward FDI from Latin America
• ·         The role of governments in Latin American International Business
• ·         Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices in Multilatinas
• ·         The role of family-owned business conglomerates in Multilatinas
• ·         Oligopolistic structures and internationalization in Multilatinas
• ·         Multilatinas and economic and political crises
• ·         Cultural challenges in doing business from Latin America
• ·         The role of Latin American diaspora and returning emigrants in international business

Submission process:

By May 4, 2015, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the new Journal of World Business EES submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is: http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb. 

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select ‘SI: Latin American MNCs’ when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal of World Business Guide for Authors available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-world-business/1090-9516/guide-for-authors . All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the Journal of World Business’s blind review process.

We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.

Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors:

• ·         Ruth V. Aguilera, Northeastern University, United States (r.aguilera@neu.edu)
• ·         Luciano Ciravegna, King’s College, London, UK, (Luciano.ciravegna@kcl.ac.uk)
• ·         Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University, United States (a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu)
• ·         Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia (mgonza40@eafit.edu.co)

References:

Aulakh, P. S. (2007). Emerging multinationals from developing economies: motivations, paths, and performance. Journal of International Management, 13, 338-355.

Brenes, E. R., Montoya, D., & Ciravegna, L. (2014). Differentiation strategies in emerging markets: The case of Latin American agribusinesses. Journal of Business Research, 67, 847-855.

Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2008). The multinationalization of developing country MNEs: The case of Multilatinas. Journal of International Management, 14, 138-154.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2012). How the analysis of developing country multinational companies helps advance theory: Solving the Goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2, 153-167.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Ramamurti, R. (2014). Understanding multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Economist. (2001). Brazil's Gerdau: Who dares wins. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/374586

Economist. (2009). Special Reports Economist Brazil. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/14829517

Elahee, M. N., & Vaidya, S. P. (2001). Coverage of Latin American business and management issues in cross-cultural research: An analysis of JIBS and MIR 1987-1997. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 4, 21-31. 

Fleury, A. & Fleury, M. T. L. (2011). Brazilian multinationals: Competences for internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Gammeltoft, P., Barnard, H., & Madhok, A. (2010). Emerging multinationals, emerging theory: macro- and micro-level perspectives. Journal of International Management, 16, 95-101.

Kamoche, K. (2011). Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa. Journal of World Business, 46, 1-4.

Laforet, S. Paliwoda, S. and Chen, J. (2012). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 47, 1-3.

Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481-498.

Mellahi, K., Demirbag, M., & Riddle, L. (2011). Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of World Business, 46, 406-410.

Paik, Y., & Lee, S. H. (2008). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 43, 1-4.

Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. (2010). Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10, 3-7. 

Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (eds). (2009). Emerging multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Santiso, J. (2013). The decade of the Multilatinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sauvant, K. P. (ed). (2008). The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: Threat or opportunity? Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Varma, A., & Budhwar, P. (2012). International Human Resource Management in the Indian context. Journal of World Business, 47, 157-338.

Williamson, P., Ramamurti, R., Fleury, A., & Fleury, M. T. (eds). (2013). Competitive advantages of emerging country multinationals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Call for papers: Globalization of Capital markets

Journal of International Management

Special Issue Call for Papers

GLOBALIZATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS: IMPLICATIONS FOR FIRM STRATEGIES

Guest Editors:

• Igor Filatotchev, City University London and Vienna University of Economics and Business
• R. Greg Bell, University of Dallas
• Abdul A. Rasheed, University of Texas at Arlington

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015

The increasing integration of global capital markets now makes it easier for firms to access capital outside of their home countries. Firms access international capital markets through a variety of means such as initial public offerings (IPO), seasoned equity offerings (SEO), cross-listings, depository receipts, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACS), shelf offerings, private equity and other informal equity capital channels. Firms can also access debt resources outside their market through bank loans, and foreign bond issues. Finally, cross border flows of venture capital (VC) continue to increase rapidly. The objective of this Special Issue will be to explore the challenges firms face in capital markets beyond their domestic boundaries, be it equity, debt, or VC markets.

While IB research continues to evaluate the challenges facing firms in foreign product markets, IB scholars have yet to adequately address the underlying reasons why firms face challenges in foreign equity markets. These include underpricing, higher underwriting and professional fees, higher listing fees, audit fees (Bronson, Ghosh, and Hogan, 2009), and greater risk of lawsuits (Bhattacharya, Galpin, and Haslem, 2007), and home bias on the part of investors (French and Poterba, 1991). Further, research suggests the existence of a “foreign firm discount” relative to host market firms (Frésard and Salva, 2010). 

Venture capital and private equity have truly become global phenomena and take many forms such as cross-border investment, foreign acquisitions, VC firms opening offices overseas, and influencing their portfolio firms to enter and exit international stock exchanges. Foreign firms raise significantly more debt than equity in the U.S.. Indeed, the largest component of the international capital market is the bond market. 

Research on the motivation, the processes, the supporting mechanisms, and the range of outcomes that firms experience as a result of entering international capital markets is extremely limited so far. We believe such research can draw from a variety of theoretical perspectives and research traditions in international business. The choice of whether to access financial resources outside of the firm’s home market, how to select the appropriate foreign market, and the manner in which to raise resources are all relevant questions that parallel prior IB research market and entry mode choice. IB scholars consider LOF as the “fundamental assumption driving theories of the multinational enterprise” (Zaheer, 1995: 341). Yet, the conceptualization and research on LOF solely based upon product market may be inadequate today given the increasing integration of capital markets (Bell, Filatotchev and Rasheed, 2012).

In addition to the main theoretical perspectives in international business, the Special Issue welcomes scholars and perspectives from diverse disciplines such as finance, economics, and sociology.

Topics

The interaction between product market and capital market strategies

• Prior research shows that the decision to list abroad has implications on the success of the firm’s products. What are the implications of capital market strategies for product market strategies and vice versa? 

Culture and capital markets

• There is a growing body of research that investigates how culture affects both economic exchange and outcomes by affecting expectations and preferences (Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales, 2009). How does culture affect cross-border transactions in formal or informal capital markets?

The role of distance

• Even in a world where technology has shrunk distance and time, spatial costs are non-trivial. Do spatial costs exist in financial markets? Moreover, do spatial costs impact capital market strategies, and the choice of foreign capital markets?

The role of innovation

• Financial markets are continuously producing new vehicles through which firms can acquire capital resources. What are the antecedents of innovations in global capital markets? How do firms take advantage of these innovations?

Institutional environments and their implications on capital market strategies

• New exchanges in Europe and Asia with vastly different listing and disclosure requirements thank New York and London. How has the competition among stock exchanges impacted the international capital raising strategies of firms?

Liabilities of Foreignness

• What are the sources of Liabilities of Foreignness (LOF) that firms face in formal or informal capital markets and what are the strategies that enable firms to overcome them?

Informal capital market strategies

• Private equity represents an innovation in the ability to provide capital to unquoted firms. What are challenges that private equity firms face in international markets? Likewise, what are the challenges that private equity portfolio firms face?

Governance and capital market strategies

• To what extent does internationalization of capital markets lead to convergence of governance practices across countries?? 

The role of trust

• Trust has been found to affect the international investment choices of private equity firms (Bruton, Ahlstrom, and Puky, 2009). How does trust impact the international capital market strategies of firms?

Third parties and capital market strategies

• Capital markets are mediated markets in that sense that participants rely greatly on key third parties, such as investment banks, brokers, and investment analysts for information production. How do third parties impact the choice of foreign capital markets? What are the internationalization strategies that these third parties pursue?

Processes

• What are the top management and board factors that impact capital market strategies? Both individual and team level factors hold considerable promise providing greater insights into the reasons why firms choose capital resources outside of their home market, and the manner in which these resources are accessed.
• What accounts for success in foreign capital markets? How do strategies for firms seeking debt capital differ from those seeking equity? How do home and host country factors determine the outcome of these strategies?
• While many of the firms that make their initial public offerings go on to succeed, what is often overlooked is the fact that more than half of these firms actually delist within the first few years (Doidge, Karolyi, and Stulz, 2010). What are the factors that account for the delisting of firms on foreign exchanges?

Submission instructions

The deadline for manuscript submission is May 15, 2015. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with Journal of International Management’s Style Guide for Authors: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-international-management/1075-4253/guide-for-authors and submitted through the Journal’s submission website. A paper development workshop will be held at the 2015 Academy of Management conference in Vancouver. Final Drafts are due February 28, 2016.

Please direct any questions regarding the Special Issue to Igor Filatotchev (Igor.Filatotchev@city.ac.uk), Greg Bell (gbell@udallas.edu) and Abdul Rasheed (abdul@uta.edu).

References

Bell, R. G., Filatotchev, I., Rasheed, A. 2012. The liability of foreignness in capital markets: Sources and remedies.Journal of International Business Studies, 43(2): 107-122.

Bhattacharya, U., Galpin, N., Haslem, B. 2007. The home court advantage in international corporate litigation.Journal of Law and Economics, 50: 625-659.

Bruton, G., Ahlstrom, D., Puky, T. 2009. Institutional differences and the development of entrepreneurial ventures: A comparison of the venture capital industries in Latin America and Asia. Journal of International Business Studies, 40: 762-778.

Doidge, C., Karolyi, A., Stulz, R., 2010. Why do foreign firms leave U.S. equity markets? Journal of Finance 65, 1507-1553.

French, K., Poterba, J. 1991. Investor diversification and international equity markets. The American Economic Review, 81(2): 222-226

Frésard, L., Salva, C. 2010. The foreign firm discount. Working Paper, HEC School of Management, HEC Paris.

Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. 2009. Cultural biases in economic exchange? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(3): 1095–1131.

Schmeisser, B. 2013. A systematic review of literature on offshoring of value chain activities. Journal of International Management, 19(4), 390-406.

Zaheer, S. 1995. Overcoming the liability of foreignness. Academy of Management Journal, 38(2): 341-363.




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University of Dallas College of Business
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Call for conference papers: 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS)

2015 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS)

Conference Theme: Pura Vida: Realizing Eudemonia in Business and Society

Hilton Papagayo Resort, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
March 12 – 15, 2015

Call for proposals:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 2014

Conference Theme

Pura Vida has been a part of the Costa Rican vernacular for over 50 years. Translated literally, it means “pure life”; however the phrase more accurately connotes “live the best life” or “living the best life” whatever the circumstances. This sentiment reflects the true spirit of Aristotle’s definition of eudemonia, which encourages us to pursue happiness through the balanced execution of virtuous behavior.

Costa Rica: An Ideal Setting to explore Eudemonia
Costa Rica exemplifies conservation and economic growth in coexistence.
Capturing 99% of its electricity from clean sources, Costa Rica strives to be carbon neutral by 2021.
Public policies prioritize investment in renewable energy sources at times choosing to limit economic opportunities in fossil fuel extraction.
Costa Rica has a good reputation for its emphasis on democracy and respect for human rights.
Identified by Ethisphere as one of the top ten most ethical travel destinations in the world
Named by the New Economics Foundation as the “Happiest Country” out of 155 countries considered

IABS Conference 2015 invites submissions that consider:

• How does our teaching, research and service activities facilitate the pursuit of eudemonia in business and society?
• How does our work connect us to the environment, with each other and with ourselves? 
• Are we engaged in a balanced execution of virtuous behavior?
• How do our economic, political and social ideologies foster or inhibit virtue? 
• How do these same ideologies influence the questions we ask? The manner we investigate these questions? The conclusions we draw? 
• Do our paradigms serve to realize pura vida, or do they keep us from it?
• How do we help our students to pursue pura vida? Do we model pura vida for our students?
• How do our service activities or engagement in our communities inside and outside the university reflect pura vida or “living the best life”?
• To what extent does our research theorize and measure eudemonia by corporations and other organizations in relation to society?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION AT: WWW.IABS.NET

Call for Papers: Journal of World Business Special Issue on Business Group Affiliation and Internationalization of Emerging Market Firms

Journal of World Business

Special Issue on Business Group Affiliation and Internationalization of Emerging Market Firms.

Business Group Affiliation and Internationalization of Emerging Market Firms

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2015

• Guest Editors: Ajai Gaur, Jane Lu, Vikas Kumar, Robert Hoskisson

Business groups are prevalent in both developed and emerging markets (Ghemawat & Khanna, 1998) and constitute the dominant organizational form in many emerging markets (Chung & Luo, 2008; Khanna & Rivkin, 2001). Scholars have utilized multiple theoretical perspectives, including institutional economics, sociology and resource-based view to define, characterize and comprehend business groups. Business groups play an important role in emerging markets by filling institutional voids and creating their own internal capital, labor and product markets (Khanna & Palepu, 2000a). There are important differences between group affiliated and unaffiliated firms in emerging economies, in terms of their underlying resource base and embeddedness in the institutional and social fabric of the local market. To add to this complexity, institutional environments in emerging economies are constantly evolving and thereby impacting strategy, particularly of organizations such as business groups that are highly embedded in the domestic context (Hoskisson, Eden, Lau, & Wright, 2000; Hoskisson, Wright, Filatotchev, & Peng, 2013). Internationalization of business group firms under such tumultuous conditions presents a rich context for advancing internationalization theory and, in particular, contributing to a better understanding of the strategic adaptation of emerging market firms.

The extant literature on business group has primarily focused on how groups as a whole and/or firms affiliated to groups perform in their home countries (e.g. Chacar & Vissa, 2005; Chang, Chung, & Mahmood, 2006; Douma, George, & Kabir, 2006; Khanna & Palepu, 2000a; 2000b; Khanna & Rivkin, 2001). There are only a few studies that have explored the impact that affiliation to a business group has on the degree of internationalization of the focal firm, and present inconclusive findings (e.g. Chang, 1995; Kim, Kim, & Hoskisson, 2010). Examining not only institutional differences but also factor market difference between home and host countries also seems to matter with regard to internationalization from emerging economies (Kim, Hoskisson, & Lee, 2014). In the wake of the recent widespread and accelerated internationalization of emerging market firms, including many that are affiliated to larger business groups, the internationalization of business group affiliated firms warrants a deeper and systematic investigation from a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches.

As emerging economies develop and become mid-range economies (Hoskisson, et al., 2013), how does this change the nature of business groups and their internationalization strategies. Do they restructure their portfolios as transaction cost theory would imply (Hoskisson, Johnson, Tihanyi, & White, 2005)? Do they substitute domestic product diversification for more internationalization (Meyer, 2006)? How are they structured and governed differently (Chittoor, Kale, Puranam, 2014) as the country settings change and as they pursue increased innovation and internationalization (Yiu, Hoskisson, Bruton, Lu, 2014)? How does government ownership influence their corporate and internationalization strategies (White, Hoskisson, Yiu, & Bruton, 2008)?

Many studies simply use dummies to distinguish group affiliates from independent firms. This approach assumes all affiliates benefit equally, which is questionable due to differences in value capture. For example, research shows that affiliate firms differ in their ability to capture benefits from internationalization; in this study more powerful group firms benefit from internationalization compared to less powerful affiliates (Wan, Hoskisson, & Kim, 2004). However, we have limited understanding of differences in power and of value capture among affiliates because few scholars examine heterogeneity among group affiliates.

The special issue solicits scholarly contributions that provide a finer-grained analysis of the internationalization of business group affiliated firms from emerging markets, encapsulating the unique attributes of business groups as well as that of the institutional and cultural contexts where they prosper. The following is an illustrative list of questions:

• 1. How is the efficacy of business groups affected due to the rapidly changing institutional environment in EEs?
• 2. Business groups are social structures deeply embedded in the broader institutional environment of EEs. How does this embeddnesses affect the internationalization propensity of their affiliates?
• 3. What are the similarities and differences between business groups from different emerging economies as well as developed economies and how do these similarities/differences affect their internationalization behavior?
• 4. How are business groups organized and managed differently in different country institutional and factor market settings? What organizational transformation are business groups undergoing to respond to the changes in the external institutional environment
• 5. What are the unique resources and capabilities of business groups? How do these capabilities help group affiliated firms in internationalization?
• 6. Are the advantages and/or disadvantages of affiliation to business group context-dependent? How do individual business affiliate firms benefit more or less from group affiliation?
• 7. Do advantages and/or disadvantages transfer to foreign markets when EE firms internationalize their operations?
• 8. How do business groups extend their group like structure in foreign markets?
• 9. How does the presence of a business group in an industry affect the industry-wide innovation and internationalization?
• 10. How do the foreign market entry modes different between group affiliated and unaffiliated firms?

We encourage potential contributors to examine the internationalization of business groups from different theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches, including multi-level models and case studies. Authors should not merely be testing the existing theories in the context of business groups, but make use of the novel context to develop new theories and explanations, and thereby enrich our understanding of firm internationalization behavior in general, and of business group internationalization behavior in particular.

Submission Process:

By March 1, 2015 all manuscripts should be submitted using the online submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is: http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb.
To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select ‘SI: Business Groups’ when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.
We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.

Questions about the special issue may be directed to any of the following guest editors:

• Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University, USA ajai@business.rutgers.edu<mailto:ajai@business.rutgers.edu>
• Jane Lu, University of Melbourne, Australia jane.lu@unimelb.edu.au<mailto:jane.lu@unimelb.edu.au>
• Vikas Kumar, University of Sydney, Australia vikas.kumar@sydney.edu.au<mailto:vikas.kumar@sydney.edu.au>
• Robert E. Hoskisson, Rice University robert.hoskisson@rice.edu<mailto:robert.hoskisson@rice.edu>

References

• Chacar, A., & Vissa, B. (2005). Are emerging economies less efficient? Performance persistence and the impact of business group affiliation. Strategic Management Journal, 26(10): 933-946.
• Chang, S.J. (1995). International expansion strategy of Japanese firms: capability building through sequential entry. Academy of Management Journal, 38(2): 383-407.
• Chang, S., Chung, C., & Mahmood, I.P. (2006). When and how does business group affiliation promote firm innovation? A tale of two emerging economies. Organization Science, 17(5): 637-656.
• Chittoor, R., Kale, P., & Puranam, P. (2014). Business groups in developing capital markets: Towards a complementarity perspective. Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
• Chung, C., & Luo, X. (2008). Human agents, contexts, and institutional change: the decline of family in the leadership of business groups. Organization Science, 19(1): 124-142.
• Douma, S., George, R., & Kabir, R. (2006). Foreign and domestic ownership, business groups, and firm performance: evidence from a large emerging market. Strategic Management Journal, 27(7): 637-657.
• Ghemawat, P., & Khanna, T. (1998). The nature of diversified business groups: a research design and two case studies. Journal of Industrial Economics, 46(1): 35-61.
• Hoskisson, R.E., Eden, L., Lau, C.-M., & Wright, M. 2000. Strategy in emerging economies. Academy of Management Journal, 43: 249–267.
• Hoskisson, R. E., Johnson, R. A., Tihanyi, L. & White, R. E. (2005). Diversified business groups and corporate refocusing in emerging economies. Journal of Management, 31: 941-965.
• Hoskisson, R.E., Wright, M., Filatotchev, I., Peng, M. (2013). Emerging multinationals from mid-range economies: The influence of institutions and factor markets. Journal of Management Studies, 50(7): 1295-1321.
• Khanna, T., & Palepu, K. (2000a). Is group affiliation profitable in emerging markets? An analysis of diversified Indian business groups. Journal of Finance, 55(2): 867-891.
• Khanna, T., & Palepu, K. (2000b). The future of business groups in emerging markets: long-run evidence from Chile. Academy of Management Journal, 43(3): 268-285.
• Khanna, T., & Rivkin, J.W. (2001). Estimating the performance effects of business groups in emerging markets. Strategic Management Journal, 22(1): 45-74.
• Kim, H., Hoskisson, R.E., & Lee, S.-H. (2014). Why strategic factor markets matter: ‘New’ multinationals’ geographic diversification and firm profitability. Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming.
• Kim, H., Kim, H., & Hoskisson, R.E. (2010). Does market-oriented institutional change in an emerging economy make business-group-affiliated multinationals perform better? An institution based view. Journal of International Business Studies, 41: 1141-1160.
• Meyer, K.E. (2006). Globalfocusing: From domestic conglomerate to global specialist. Journal of Management Studies, 43(5): 1109-1144.
• Kim, H., Hoskisson, R. E. & Wan, W. P. 2004. Power dependence, diversification strategy and performance in keiretsu member firms, Strategic Management Journal, 25: 613-636.
• White, R. E., Hoskisson, R. E., Yiu, D. & Bruton, G. (2008). Employment and market innovation in Chinese business group-affiliated firms: The role of group control systems, Management and Organization Review, 4: 225-256.
• Yiu, D. Hoskisson, R. E., Bruton, G. & Lu, Y. (2014). Dueling institutional logics and the effect on strategic entrepreneurship in Chinese business groups. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(3): 195-213.

Call for papers: Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS

Call for papers for a special issue
Submission deadline: May 4, 2015

Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

Guest Editors:

• Ruth Aguilera
• Luciano Ciravegna
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

“Name some Brazilian multinationals. Even harder than "famous Belgians", isn't it? Despite Brazil being the world's eighth-largest economy, with plenty of big, profitable firms, few of them have a reasonable share of their operations abroad and are thus genuinely multinational.” The Economist, Sept 21, 2000.

“For the first time Brazil has a crop of companies that can be described as multinationals. Some of them are already well known outside Brazil: Petrobras; Vale, one of the world’s largest mining companies; and Embraer, the world’s third-largest maker of passenger jets.” The Economist, November 12, 2009.

These two quotes from the British newspaper The Economist reflect the change in view about Multilatinas, or Latin American multinational companies. The reason is not that there were no Multilatinas before 2000. In fact, there have been Multilatinas for over a century. For example, the Argentinean shoemaker Alpargatas was created in 1885 and established subsidiaries in Uruguay in 1890 and in Brazil in 1907. The reason is that there were few studies analyzing Multilatinas before the 2000s. This was part of a general trend in the international business literature that appeared to have ignored the region. For example, a review of articles in two leading journals in the field of international business (Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review) in the period 1987-1997 indicated that fewer than 6% of the articles mentioned Latin America (Elahee and Vaidya, 2001). This paucity of studies on the region had not changed in recent times. A review of studies in four leading international business journal (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review) in 2001-2005 indicated that only 2.75% of articles studied firms in the region (Perez-Batres, Pisani and Doh, 2010). Nevertheless, a few analyses of multinationals have indicated that firms from this region are becoming multinational rapidly and some of them are becoming leaders in their industries (Casanova, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2008,; Fleury and Fleury, 2010; Santiso, 2013).

In this special issue we plan to take stock of what is known about these firms and identify potential avenues for future research. Other special issues of the Journal of World Businesshave analyzed various regions of the world such as India (Varma and Budhwar, 2012), China (Laforet, Paliwoda and Chen, 2012), Africa (Kamoche, 2011), the Middle East (Mellahi, Demirbag and Riddle, 2011), and Korea (Paik and Lee, 2008). This special issue contributes to the global scope of the Journal of World Business by studying firms from Latin America, which have, thus far, been underrepresented in the management and business literature (Brenes, Montoya and Ciravegna, 2014). With this special issue, we aim to not only increase our understanding of Multilatinas, but also to identify the particular characteristics of their internationalization and how it compares with the internationalization of firms from other regions.

The rise of emerging market multinationals has been well documented (for example see the papers in the special issues edited by Aulakh, 2007; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Gammeltoft, Barnard and Madhok, 2010; Luo and Tung, 2007; and in the books edited by Cuervo-Cazurra and Ramamurti, 2014; Ramamurti and Singh, 2007, Sauvant, 2008; Williamson et al., 2013), yet the literature on emerging market multinationals has thus far focused mainly on firms from regions other than Latin America. With this Special Issue of Journal of World Business,we aim to fill this gap, contributing to the international business literature and the body of knowledge documenting the practices of multinational companies.

This call is an attempt to integrate different aspects that might have influenced the growth and internationalization of Latin American firms. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and case studies submission addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• Successful Multilatinas expanding outside their region
• Comparative ownership advantages/disadvantages of Multilatinas
• Internationalization patterns of Latin American firms
• The internationalization of state-owned Latin American firms
• Institutional constraints for Latin American companies to internationalize
• Foreign performance of Latin American firms
• Effects of exports promotion agencies on the internationalization of Latin American firms
• Governance in Multilatinas
• The internationalization of Latin American business groups 
• Global leadership in Multilatinas
• Dimensions of management diversity in Multilatinas
• Determinants of outward FDI from Latin America
• The role of governments in Latin American International Business
• Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices in Multilatinas
• The role of family-owned business conglomerates in Multilatinas
• Oligopolistic structures and internationalization in Multilatinas
• Multilatinas and economic and political crises
• Cultural challenges in doing business from Latin America
• The role of Latin American diaspora and returning emigrants in international business

Submission process:

By May 4, 2015, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the new Journal of World Business EES submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is: http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select ‘SI: Latin American MNCs’ when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal of World Business Guide for Authors available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-world-business/1090-9516/guide-for-authors. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the Journal of World Business’s blind review process.

We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.

Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors:

• Ruth V. Aguilera, Northeastern University, United States (r.aguilera@neu.edu)
• Luciano Ciravegna, King’s College, London, UK, (Luciano.ciravegna@kcl.ac.uk)
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University, United States (a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu)
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia (mgonza40@eafit.edu.co)

References:

• Aulakh, P. S. (2007). Emerging multinationals from developing economies: motivations, paths, and performance. Journal of International Management, 13, 338-355.
• Brenes, E. R., Montoya, D., & Ciravegna, L. (2014). Differentiation strategies in emerging markets: The case of Latin American agribusinesses. Journal of Business Research,67, 847-855.
• Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2008). The multinationalization of developing country MNEs: The case of Multilatinas. Journal of International Management, 14, 138-154.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2012). How the analysis of developing country multinational companies helps advance theory: Solving the Goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2, 153-167.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Ramamurti, R. (2014). Understanding multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Economist. (2001). Brazil's Gerdau: Who dares wins. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/374586
• Economist. (2009). Special Reports Economist Brazil. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/14829517
• Elahee, M. N., & Vaidya, S. P. (2001). Coverage of Latin American business and management issues in cross-cultural research: An analysis of JIBS and MIR 1987-1997.International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 4, 21-31. 
• Fleury, A. & Fleury, M. T. L. (2011). Brazilian multinationals: Competences for internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Gammeltoft, P., Barnard, H., & Madhok, A. (2010). Emerging multinationals, emerging theory: macro- and micro-level perspectives. Journal of International Management,16, 95-101.
• Kamoche, K. (2011). Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa. Journal of World Business, 46, 1-4.
• Laforet, S. Paliwoda, S. and Chen, J. (2012). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 47, 1-3.
• Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481-498.
• Mellahi, K., Demirbag, M., & Riddle, L. (2011). Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of World Business, 46, 406-410.
• Paik, Y., & Lee, S. H. (2008). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 43, 1-4.
• Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. (2010). Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10, 3-7. 
• Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (eds). (2009). Emerging multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Santiso, J. (2013). The decade of the Multilatinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sauvant, K. P. (ed). (2008). The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: Threat or opportunity? Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
• Varma, A., & Budhwar, P. (2012). International Human Resource Management in the Indian context. Journal of World Business, 47, 157-338.
• Williamson, P., Ramamurti, R., Fleury, A., & Fleury, M. T. (eds). (2013). Competitive advantages of emerging country multinationals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Call for Papers: Relaunching The Multinational Business Review

Relaunching The Multinational Business Review: call for papers

Many of you will know that Alan Rugman had edited The Multinational Business Review (MBR) for the last 6 years. Alan had wanted to establish an academic journal that sought to address issues relating to international business, both from a management and economics perspective.

In keeping with this spirit, from the first issue of 2015 (Volume 23), the journal will be co-edited by Mark Casson, Rajneesh Narula and Alain Verbeke. We reckon it will take three of us to fill Alan’s rather large shoes!

At the same time, we also want to take advantage of this change in management to relaunch MBR. We will be renewing the editorial board and the editorial team over the next few months - please stay tuned for updates.

Spirit of the 'renewed' MBR

All three of us have an explicit preference for papers that take a strong conceptual stand and are grounded in theory.We welcome papers that challenge conventional wisdom and received theory, believing as we do that new evidence and changing circumstances require us to continually question the validity of theories and frameworks, and their underlying assumptions.

We also seek innovative papers that provide improved description, explanation and prediction of the behavior of economic actors in the international environment, including (but not limited to) work on: the strategy and organization of multinational enterprise, international business history, geography of international business, and the impact of international business on economic growth and development. Specific topics of interest include innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, value chain coordination and the performance implications of international business strategies. Conceptual papers and those that examine competing perspectives and viewpoints are always welcome.

The editors are also keen on submissions that examine the evidence systematically, building upon and testing existing models and frameworks. Such papers should be able to suggest managerial, economic or government policy recommendations built upon sound empirical evidence, whether qualitative or quantitative. We will still welcome critical surveys of the literature, but they must demonstrate a high degree of originality. We will no longer publish book reviews.

Novelties in the line-up

We shall be expanding our publications to include two new types of articles, apart from the usual refereed articles:

1. Short, to-the-point and non-technical editorial opinions (op-eds). These will address new and important issues that deserve immediate attention, which will be lightly refereed. Sometimes a significant or controversial new theoretical or methodological issue thrusts itself upon the reality of IB. New ideas need to be presented to the field community in a fairly rapid way, and be accessible not just to the academic specialist, but also to the practitioner, the politician, the policy-maker with a minimum of turgidity and as little fuss as possible. Such submissions should be 4000 words or less. Contributors are invited to submit an 500 word outline to the editors for consideration.
2. Focused debate forums. The first issue of every year will have a debate forum - a set of ‘think pieces’ commissioned on a specific topic, with short 'op-ed' contributions of 2k-3k words that highlight multiple angles to an important 'big issue' in IB. We plan to publish one such debate forum in every volume, beginning with Volume 23, issue 1, 2015, revisiting Dunning's classic motives.

Call for special issues

We are seeking innovative and bold thinkers to propose special issues. We have a detailed set of instructions available at:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/news_story.htm?id=5713


Rajneesh Narula (on behalf of the editorial team)
Professor of International Business Regulation
Director, John H. Dunning Centre for International Business
Henley Business School
University of Reading, UK

Call for conference papers: From Local Voids to Local Goods: Can Institutions Promote Competitive Advantage?

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SOCIETY SPECIAL CONFERENCE

From Local Voids to Local Goods: Can Institutions Promote Competitive Advantage?

Santiago, Chile
March 19-21, 2015

We hope this e-mail finds you well. We are organizing the forthcoming special conference of the Strategic Management Society in Santiago, Chile, on March 19-21, 2015. We would like to call your attention to the conference and ask you to consider submitting your work. Please feel free to share this message with your colleagues and students.

The overall theme of the conference is “From Local Voids to Local Goods: Can Institutions Promote Competitive Advantage?” We seek to cover many issues related to how domestic firms, multinationals, business associations and governments interact to create sustainable advantage. Tarun Khanna will be a key note speaker talking about “Institutions and Strategy in Emerging Markets.” We will also have panels stimulating discussions on the foundations of strategy. For instance, Jay Barney and Margaret Peteraf will share their thoughts on the evolution and future directions of the Resource-Based View.

Other speakers include Joan Enric Ricart, Stephen Tallman, and Margarethe Wiersema, as well as distinguished academics participating in panels focused on a broad range of topics, includingJay Anand, Sharon Alvarez, Sandro Cabral, Betrand Quelin, Maria Tereza Fleury, Peter Klein, Gerry McDermott, Felipe Monteiro, Aldo Musacchio, Roberto Vassolo and Carmen Weigelt. In addition, on March 19 we will have a doctoral consortium organized by Ronaldo Parente, Christian Felzensztein and Sergio Olavarrieta.

More details of the conference can be found in the website http://santiago.strategicmanagement.net/featured_speakers.php. We are accepting submissions (7-page proposals) for Paper, Common Ground and Panel sessions. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2014.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Santiago!

Sincerely,

Jorge Tarzijan
Luiz Mesquita
Sergio Lazzarini

Call for papers: International entrepreneurship: New perspectives in International Business Research

“Journal of Entrepreneurship Management and Innovation” (JEMI), vol. 10
http://jemi.edu.pl/
One of the special issue of 2015 will focus on:

International entrepreneurship: New perspectives in International Business Research 

The concept of 'international entrepreneurship' (IE), as one can assume, was used for the first time in the doctoral dissertation of Tomas Otto Kohn in 1988 at Harvard. It is most probably that it was published for the first time in the work of J.F. Morrow in the same year. A year later, this notion appears in scientific publications by various authors, including P.P. McDougall , who together with B.M. Oviatt developed this theory in the following years. It can therefore be assumed that the current international entrepreneurship as an area of research is only 25-30 years old, although its intensive development occurred only in the first decade of the 21st century, that is, de facto, a few years ago. IE has been developing very intensively, however it must be admitted that, apart from some elements of this school, it is still quite poorly explored and described field in the literature.
The special issue seeks papers that discuss and analyse:

• international entrepreneurship as a new field of research, 
• international entrepreneurship vs. international business,
• international entrepreneurship school vs. theory of internationalisation of firms
• traditional versus rapid internationalisation of firms, 
• role of the entrepreneur in the process of internationalisation of firms,
• internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs vs. LEs),
• internationalisation of family businesses,
• recognising and exploring international business opportunities,
• entry modes and internationalisation patterns of firms, 
• international strategies of Central European small businesses (SMEs vs. LEs),
• international competitiveness of Central European small businesses (SMEs vs. LEs),
• internationalisation of Central European small businesses (SMEs vs. LEs),
• int’l entrepreneurship vs. int’l management and int’l marketing.

Contributors are welcome to propose other topics that meet the objectives of this issue.

Guest editor: 

Prof. Krzysztof Wach, PhD
Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Paper submission:

Papers should be submitted before the end of October 2014 to JEMI, at: jemi@wsb-nlu.edu.pl. They must be in sufficient detail for the referees to judge their meaning and value. Submissions must be in English, should normally be no more than 15 pages in length (up to 8000 words), and follow the submission requirements posted on the JEMI website at http://jemi.edu.pl/pl/submission.html. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors within one-two months.

Best regards,
Krzysztof Wach

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Prof. UEK dr hab. Krzysztof Wach
Associate Professor in International Entrepreneurship
Head of the Centre for Strategic & Int'l Entrepreneurship

Cracow University of Economics (CUE / UEK)
Faculty of Economics and International Relations
Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Krakow, Poland
tel. +48 12 293 5376, +48 12 293 5327, +48 12 29 35 363
fax +48 12 29 35 042

Call for papers: Special Issue on te Role of multinational enterprises in local market developments

European Journal of International Management (EJIM)

Special Issue on: “THE ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN LOCAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS”

Guest Editors

• Pervez N. Ghauri, King’s College, UK 
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• Byung Il Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Description

As globalization intensifies and new middle classes emerge in most markets, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have significantly increased their international business efforts. The recorded figure for 2010 revealed a more than triple increase of the worldwide foreign direct investment (FDI) activities since the year 2000, amounting to US$20.4 trillion (UNCTAD 2011). The reason for the consistent expansion in MNEs foreign operations is closely associated with the increased realization that the presence of foreign firms is beneficial for both home and host countries. One view is that MNEs possessing sophisticated knowledge often function as a conduit for local firms to acquire foreign technology and know-how. In addition, MNEs also help in the creation of employment opportunities and an increase of exports strengthening the balance-of-payments position of the local economies (Park, 2011; Park and Ghauri, 2011). Likewise, home economies of MNEs achieve market expansion and learn about foreign markets.

However, some scholars (e.g., Chang, 2004; Ziegler, 2005) have shed light on the negative aspects of MNE operations, and even argue that MNEs are one of the primary obstacles inhibiting economic growth in developing countries. The explanations given by these scholars, proposing negative impacts are the following; often MNE activities are too vitalized and excessive, foreign firms attempt to dominate the market they enter and present a challenge to national sovereignty. Moreover, the aggravation of local competition against MNEs inevitably culls locally grown enterprises, which results in the deterioration of employment. In particular, MNEs re-invest only a fraction of their revenues in local economies and drain positive effects from both capital injections and the balance of payments. This leads to serious reductions in foreign exchange reserves, forces local governments to borrow more foreign debt and pushes the local economy into a vicious economic circle. These negative effects cause hardship for local governments and negatively influence their investments in infrastructure, education and technology development. In this vein, they suggest that MNE operations are not much different from the establishment of colonies.

A key problem is that it is perhaps hard to say that an unlimited open-door toward MNEs and limitless competition based on market principles is the only correct answer for economic growth. In other words, we cannot merely overlook the adverse aspects of MNEs, and need to practically assess the value of foreign investment. There is a general consensus that the fundamental goals and aims of MNEs are to pursue corporate profits and increase organizational competitiveness in overseas markets, and thus such gloomy opinions about MNEs are unavoidable to some extent. In this vein, it is time to think about the ways to lessen the skeptical attitudes of FDI by identifying the role of MNEs in local market developments. We also suggest that the negative impression of FDI might be significantly reduced if MNEs engage in actions that go beyond their direct economic and financial interests, involve themselves in activities that are not required by the law but further social good and use their internal resources in ways to benefit local markets through committed participation as members of society.

Taken together, the objective of this special issue is to bring both theoretical and empirical advancements examining the role of MNEs in developing local markets in various areas (e.g., economic, social, institutional and ethical developments).

Subject coverage

We seek both theoretical and empirical papers that may address, but are not limited to, the following list of potential research questions:

• How does FDI function as a vehicle to enhance economic development in local markets? Does FDI from MNEs based in advanced economies trigger economic growth in developing countries in the long term?
• Who obtains more benefits from inward FDI between advanced and developing countries? Are there avenues for MNEs based in advanced economies to help developing countries to promote economic growth?
• Are there any different patterns of economic development through FDI between advanced and developing countries? What implications can be drawn from countries that have successfully leapfrogged into better economic status?
• What are the key factors promoting the positive spillover effects of FDI in developing economies?
• In the perspective of developing countries, what are the primary conditions that inhibit the negative economic outcomes from inward FDI?
• How does FDI contribute to social evolution, particularly in emerging and developing countries?
• What is the effect of profit remittance by MNEs in the local market economy? What encourages MNEs to re-invest profits in local markets?
• What motivates corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in foreign markets? Is there any particular relationship between the level of foreign CSR and economic development in emerging and developing countries?
• What facilitates knowledge transfer from advanced to developing economies through FDI?
• Is there a correlation between FDI types (e.g., ‘vertical versus horizontal’ or ‘export-driven versus market-seeking’) and economic contributions in emerging and developing countries?

References

• Chang, H-J. (2004), Globalization, economic development and the role of the State, London, NY: Zed Books.
• Park, B. I. (2011), “Knowledge transfer of multinational enterprises and technology acquisition in international joint ventures”, International Business Review, Vol. 20, pp. 75-87.
• Park, B. I. and Ghauri, P. N. (2011), “Key factors affecting acquisition of technological capabilities from foreign acquiring firms by small and medium sized local firms”, Journal of World Business, Vol. 46, pp. 116-125.
• UNCTAD (2011). World investment report: Non-equity modes of international production and development. Geneva: United Nations.
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• Zilgler, J. (2005), L'empire de la honte, Paris: Fayard.

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Deadlines for submission

• Submission of Manuscripts: January 15, 2015
• Notification to Authors: April 1, 2015
• Final Versions Due: December 1, 2015
• The issue is published: May 2016

Editors and Notes

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contactsubmissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors).

Guest Editor(s) contact details:

Dr. Pervez N. Ghauri

King’s College London, Department of Management, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, UK
Tel:
00-44-(0)20-7848-4122, Email: pervez.ghauri@kcl.ac.uk



Dr. Byung Il Park
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, College of Business Administration, 270, Imun-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-791, South Korea
Tel:
00-82-(0)10-4157-3532, Email: leedspark@hufs.ac.kr

Call for papers. Special issue on: Social entrepreneurship and socio-economic development

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review. 2015, Vol. 3, No. 1

The forthcoming issue will focus on
Social entrepreneurship and socio-economic development

• Issue editor: Remigiusz Gawlik (Cracow University of Economics, Poland) 
• release: March 2015
• papers submitting deadline: December 15, 2014

Covered Topics:

• · Sustainable economic development 
• · Entrepreneurial policy in favour of socio-economic development 
• · Corporate social responsibility in the globalised economy 
• · Socially innovative businesses 
• · Inclusive Entrepreneurship (women, immigrants, people with disabilities)
• · Social entrepreneurship 
• · The role of social companies/enterprises in modern economies
• · Micro-financing
• · Poverty and economic exclusion/inclusion – pre-emptive strategies
• · NPOs/NGOs and economic development 
• · Cooperation between NPOs and NGOs and businesses
• · Economic, social and political repercussions of unbalanced development
• · Global capital and local workforce - bridging the income gap
• · Social challenges in developing and developed regions

Submission:

• · Notification of the title of your paper until October 15, 2014.
• · The complete articles must be submitted until December 15, 2014.
• · Final submission (with issue number) should be sent at eber@uek.krakow.pl or directly to the issue editor at remigiusz.gawlik@uek.krakow.pl (Remigiusz Gawlik, PhD). 

EBER JOURNAL

The concept of the Journal is to provide a broad and unified platform for revealing and spreading the economics and management research focusing on entrepreneurship, entrepreneur as well as particular and specific entrepreneurial aspects. It attempts to bridge the gap between the theory and practice in different sections of economics and management. The Journal is trying to link theory and practice by publishing different types of articles, including research papers, conceptual papers, literature reviews, or case studies. The Journal accept the articles from the following fields:

• Entrepreneurship and Human Capital (especially entrepreneurship and innovation, strategic entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, new trends in HRM and organizational behaviour), 
• Management and Business Studies (especially entrepreneurial management, entrepreneurial business, modern trends in business studies and organization theory), 
• International Business and International Economics (especially international entrepreneurship and new trends in international economics), 
• Applied Economics and Statistics (especially the role of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur in economics – microeconomics and macroeconomics, new trends in economics, current research in statistics and demography), 
•  Public Policies and Business Education (especially policies in favour of entrepreneurship, innovation, R&D and SMEs, education for entrepreneurship, new trends in social sciences

Our journal is indexed on the IC Master Journals List (Index Copernicus International) as well as in BazEkon. We are in process to be indexed in other prestigious databases. All articles are available in both printed and electronic format (PDF) at our website.

For detailed information about our journal, thematic issues, editorial requirements, as well as copyright statement and electronic versions of published papers please refer to our website: www.eber.uek.krakow.pl

Call for conference papers: European International Business Academy (EIBA)

European International Business Academy (EIBA)

40th Annual Conference
Conference website: www.eiba2014.org
Uppsala University, Sweden

December 11-13, 2014

The Future of Global Organizing

Call for Papers

Introduction & Background

Over the past four decades, since the establishment of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), we have seen large changes with regard to the organization and structure of international firms. Partly as a consequence of the on-going globalization process, we see today a great variety of organizational and geographic structures in multinational corporations (MNCs). These structures, in turn, reflect the tensions between different organizational principles, such as, the MNC as a hierarchy or a network, internalizing or externalizing core business activities, and the relative importance of headquarters and subsidiaries in the value creation processes. Such tensions are crucial issues for further research on the future of global organizing – the underlying theme of this year’s EIBA Annual Conference.
We have also seen an increased interest in the interplay between the environment and the MNC. While earlier studies tended to concentrate on the impact of national and cross-national institutions on the organization of business, recent studies have also focused on the political role of MNCs and their possibility to shape the rules and regulations in different countries. The interplay between the institutional environment and the MNC leads to new challenges as well as a variety of opportunities for multinational corporations to ultimately affect the way in which business across national borders is organized. Taking a more critical stance towards MNCs has raised questions of organizational politics and power, not only reacting to unethical behaviours and financial crises, but more fundamentally challenging our overall understanding of the MNC; post-colonial organizational and intersectionality theories have also provided new understandings.
When we observe contemporary phenomena around us we find a number of interesting organizational forms, which potentially may characterize global organizing in the future. One example is cross-sector partnerships where firms join together with non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and local communities to pursue unattainable goals and resources. Further, individuals outside the MNC are increasingly involved in the firm in novel ways such as in the use of ‘open innovation’, or ‘equity crowd funding’. We can raise questions as to whether these large groups of investors in the future may be interested in more than profit in return for their investments, and if so, what does that imply for firm management and organization? We have also seen how small local players who organize themselves into networks have become competitors seriously challenging large global firms, as for example, when small energy producers in Germany challenged large multinationals on the market. Will such independent local network organizations spread across the world and become a new form of global organizing in the future?

The above raises questions like:

• What new forms of global organizing can we expect in the future, and will the MNC as we know it become extinct?
• How can we understand the value creation processes in the MNC and the contributions of different units in these processes?
• How is the tension between corporate and local rationality handled in the contemporary MNC?
• Are market power and political power of the contemporary MNCs relevant issues for research among IB scholars?
• How can MNCs meet the often conflicting demands of corporate social responsibility, sustainable operations, and responsible (ethical) leadership, and remain viable in the long run?
• What do contemporary digital and technological developments, e.g., social media, virtual worlds, and cloud services, imply for the international organization of work, communication, and management practices?
• How can MNCs’ human resource management practices become inclusive yet motivating, flexible yet representative, and how do they link to employer branding efforts on a global scale?
• How do linguistic and cultural diversity enrich global organizations and their activities?

We encourage and would welcome the IB community at large to submit their thought-provoking and adventurous papers on these and related questions to the EIBA 2014 theme track on the future of global organizing.

Conference Tracks

We invite competitive papers and working papers on any of the following EIBA 2014 conference tracks.

For more information and key words for each track, please visit the conference website:http://www.eiba2014.org/.

Competitive papers, presented in competitive sessions, should be close to a publishable state, whilst working papers, presented in interactive sessions, may be in an earlier stage of development.
Proposals for panel sessions can also be submitted to the most appropriate track.


1. Theme track: The Future of Global Organizing

Track chair: Ivo Zander, Uppsala University

2. Developments In IB Theory and Methods, Trends and Critical Approaches

Track chair: Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, University of Porto

3. Internationalisation Process, SMEs and Entrepreneurship

Track chair: Olli Kuivalainen, Lappeenranta University of Technology

4. Corporate Governance, Finance, and Accounting

Track chair: Niels Hermes, Groningen University

5. International HRM, Global Leadership, Language and Cross-Cultural Management

Track chair: Dana Minbaeva, Copenhagen Business School

6. MNC Strategy and Organisation

Track chair: Tina Ambos, University of Sussex

7. International Marketing and Value Chain Management

Track chairs: Tomas Hult, Michigan State University, and Vicky Bamiatzi, University of Leeds

8. Knowledge Management and Innovation

Track chair: Kristiina Mäkelä, Aalto University

9. MNCs, Governments and Sustainable Development

Track chair: Mo Yamin, Manchester Business School

10. Teaching International Business

Track chair: Elizabeth Rose, University of Otago

Submission of Papers

All papers will be double-blind refereed. Copies of all the accepted papers for competitive and interactive sessions will be published in the EIBA 2014 Conference Proceedings. Detailed guidelines for the submission of conference papers will be available on the conference website: http://www.eiba2014.org/.
The submission deadline for all competitive and working papers, as well as for panel proposals, is Tuesday, July 15, 2014.
All papers should be submitted via the conference website to the Chair of one (and only one) of the conference tracks. The submission system will be live from May 15, 2014.

Pre-Conference Activities

Doctoral Tutorial & Doctoral Symposium

The 2014 EIBA Annual Conference is proud to host the 28th John H. Dunning Doctoral Tutorial in International Business. This one-day event gives selected doctoral students the opportunity to discuss their research with distinguished international faculty, and enables the students to become better acquainted with an international network of researchers in international business.

EIBA 2014 is also pleased to host the 3rd EIBA Doctoral Symposium, recently initiated to increase the number of student participants to EIBA doctoral events and conferences as well as offer and provide more feedback opportunities for young scholars in the field of IB.

More information about both doctoral events will be available on the EIBA 2014 conference website; the submission deadline for thesis proposals is September 1, 2014. Note that students participating in the Doctoral Tutorial or the Doctoral Symposium are expected to register for the EIBA conference.

IBR & JIBS Paper Development Workshops

Among the featured EIBA 2014 pre-conference activities will be Paper Development Workshops for theInternational Business Review (IBR) and the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). Authors who have not yet been published in the respective journal can submit their papers for the workshop of their choice; deadline September 1, 2014. Note that papers submitted to these workshops cannot also be presented at the conference.

For more information about the above pre-conference events, please visit the EIBA 2014 website.

Conference Venue

The EIBA 2014 conference will be held in Uppsala University’s main building and in the Centre for Economic Studies. The beautiful university main building and the Auditorium (Aula), built in the 1880s, will be the venue of the opening session and welcome reception on Thursday evening, December 11, 2014. On December 12and 13, delegates will be in the Centre for Economic Studies that will house the remaining plenary sessions – including a lecture by the 2014 Nobel prize winner in economics on December 13 – as well as the parallel competitive and workshop sessions. Both venues are within walking distance (5-10 minutes) of each other and are located close to the city centre, which is also the older part of Uppsala. To complete the conference, the gala dinner on Saturday evening will take place in Uppsala Castle, located on a hill overlooking the city centre.

The international airport of Stockholm (Arlanda) is located between Stockholm and Uppsala.
Several means of transportation will take participants directly to Uppsala within 30-50 minutes.
Hotel accommodation has been reserved in advance, ranging from low-budget to high-quality standards.

Conference Fees and Registration

The EIBA 2014 conference fee includes: conference participation, breaks and lunches, the opening reception, the gala dinner, the conference handbook and CD-ROM (including the proceedings), EIBA membership for 2015, and a one-year journal subscription to the International Business Review. There are reduced conference fees for PhD students and persons accompanying registered delegates who wish to attend the gala dinner.

Contact Information

Detailed information about EIBA 2014 Uppsala can be found on the conference website.

All related inquiries should be sent via e-mail to info@eiba2014.org.

EIBA President & 2014 Conference Chair: Rian Drogendijk (Uppsala University)